History and Goals
The Warthogs Motorcycle Club was established on May 8, 2001 in Detroit, Michigan. The founding members of this club consist of active and retired city and federal Law Enforcement Officers that were formerly members of the Wild Pigs Motorcycle Club established in California in 1987. Due to a legal war regarding rights to ownership of the name and logo of a private enterprise, the national membership of WPMC was forced to disband or become a franchise of RR Enterprises. These options led to the decision of the original Wild Pigs into several different Public Safety Motorcycle Clubs. Having reviewed the options of joining one of the new clubs formed, or beginning a fresh start, the Detroit Chapter of the original Wild Pigs concluded that we did not want to be Iron and we did not want to be Pigs. So a new club was formed. We hold no grudge or animosity to anyone for the past and would like to thank RR Enterprises, because if not for them, we would have not evolved from pigs to WARTHOGS.
Our primary goals in becoming a Public Safety motorcycle club are to develop a bond between Law Enforcement Officers,Firefighters and Officers of the Court, and to assist Officers and Firefighters in their time of need. We also assist the orphans and widows of those who lost their lives in the line of duty.
We are a non-profit organization that supports ALL Public Safety and Military Motorcycle Clubs and will respect the colors they wear. The WARTHOGS offer with open arms the ability for past Wild Pigs to become WARTHOGS. We are not affiliated with Harley-Davidson or any other motorcycle company. However in support of American made motorcycles, we require our members to own and operate a V-Twin motorcycle manufactured by a North American owned company.
Our logo signifies what we, as former Wild Pigs,represent today as a result of the legal battle. The skull signifies a wild pig stripped of his hide (colors) being raised from the ashes of the War of the Pigs by the mythical Phoenix (the emblem of immortality), only to reappear as that of a WARTHOG skull, a larger, stronger, meaner ass kicking Phacochoerus aethiopicus than the North American wild pig. Above the skull is proudly displayed the Law Enforcement Shield and Star accompanied by the Firefighters Maltese Cross.